Defending My Love For Homeschooling

  I was telling one of my acquaintances about my recent blog post, Top 10 Questions I Get Asked As A Homeschooler, and they started telling me all the reasons why they disapproved of me being homeschooled. this is how I shut the conversation down.

After about ten minutes of them talking to me about every reason why they disagree with homeschooling, this is the last sentence they spoke before I jumped in.

“Your mom is just sheltering you from reality, how are you going to function in society when you’ve been alienated?”

“I requested to be pulled out of school because I wasn’t getting the education I knew I deserved, having my Mom homeschool me has made me smarter than any other teacher that could try, and have failed, to do. And reality isn't a high school drama or depending on your teachers for a grade rather than showing the hard work you put in, which I have done. I’m blessed to have a Mom that cares about my well-being and sheltered me in the ways that are needed as a teenager, but still understands that I need to grow up and experience a lot of life on my own. I’d rather expose myself to professional, mature, and functioning members of society rather than spending all day in a classroom surrounded by people who don’t have the same standards for education as I do. School to me was just a big daycare center with a few test and judgmental teenagers, the public school system never got me anywhere. I love being homeschooled. It’s what got me ahead of you.”

  I will never understand why people try so hard to belittle me when I speak to them about homeschooling, do they just expect me to sit there and take it? I get it, you haven’t met a 17-year old that has their head on right and talks to you like an adult, it doesn’t mean you should try and put me in the same category as every other person my age and talk down to me. 

Mia Mason